Exercise 2, page 116.0:01
Sam, don't forget that this Saturday will be Buy Nothing Day.0:06
What are you going to do instead of shopping?0:10
Actually, I don't understand what it's all about.0:13
I saw something on the TV last night about it, but I missed the first part, so you can tell me.0:16
Well, the idea is that people should spend one whole day without doing any shopping.0:21
In the Buy Nothing campaign, they say that consumerism has got out of hand and they want people to kick the shopping habit and turn to life instead.0:26
That sounds a bit much.0:35
I suppose it's a slogan to catch people's attention and make them think about the issue of commercialism.0:37
It's sad, really, when we come to a point where we think we can only buy happiness.0:43
What's more, all this consumerism affects the environment.0:48
We were discussing environmental issues in school last week.0:53
Did you know that the developed countries consume over 80% of the earth's natural resources even though they make up only 20% of the world's population?0:56
I think Buy Nothing Day is a good place to start questioning our buying decisions and remind ourselves that happiness is a priceless commodity.1:07
What might happen, of course, is is that people will simply buy twice as much the day before or after.1:16
Now that we have Sunday trading and shops are open seven days a week, I hope not.1:21
It would be nice to think that people gave a thought for the environment and developing countries too.1:26
Oh yes, the effect of transporting products all over the world.1:31
And the carbon footprint, that was something else that we studied at school.1:35
I'm looking up carbon footprint on the Internet here because I don't understand the term.1:39
It says here carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted by human activity or accumulated over the full life cycle of a product or service.1:44
I'm glad you didn't ask me to define it for you.1:57
But to go back to your original question, I'm going to leave my credit card and cash at home on Saturday and go and play football.2:00
I'm going to help Mum in the garden.2:08
We've decided to try growing our own fruit and vegetables.2:10
I guess that will help reduce our carbon footprint just a little bit too.2:14
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